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UW Prof. Chad Alan Goldberg, "Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea"


Stu Levitan welcomes University of Wisconsin Professor Chad Alan Goldberg, editor of an important new volume
Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea, from our very good friends at the University of Wisconsin Press.
But before we hear from the good professor, you should know that you have dialed us up on a very special day. It is Madison Bookbeat’s  last show of the winter pledge drive, giving you one more chance to call 256-2001 or go online to wortfm.org and show your support for what we’ve been doing every Monday afternoon for the past 14 months. And there are three folks who did just that last week whom we’d like to thank. Pete likes WORT because he learns something every time he listens; he says being in a town with an independent radio station is almost like being in college. That’s right, friends, you can regard your donations as voluntary, tax-deductible tuition. Terese says she enjoyed the book we featured last week, Madeline Uraneck’s “H ....

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Remembering Rachel Feldhay Brenner


Rachel Feldhay Brenner, the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died on Thursday, February 4 in Madison. She was 74.
Born in Zabrze, Poland, Brenner moved to Israel with her family in 1956. She studied at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of York in Toronto before coming to Madison, where she joined the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies in 1992. In addition to chairing the department from 2004 to 2007, Brenner was an active member of the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. She was also a senior fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. ....

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